Bihar Table Tennis Association hosts 70th senior inter-State table tennis championships from January 5-11. Over players from 34 states participate in the tournament. Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal and Neha Aggarwal, top seeds for men and women events are among the 400 paddlers. Teams were divided into eight groups with each group for men having four teams and three teams each for women team championship.
The players expected to be seen in action here include Shubhajit Saha, Anirban Nandi, Pathik Mehta, Shubhajit Dutta, G Jeetendra, A Amalraj, Sunil Shetty, Ranbir Das, Sourabh Chakravorty, Poulomi Ghatak, Mouma Das, K Shamini, Mantu Ghosh, Moshumi Pal, Mamata Prabhu, Saumi Mandal, Kasturi Chakraborty and my friends R.S.Raja and T.Raghuram and I love to see their doubles match.
In the seven-day championship, altogether 31 men and 26 women teams would lock horn for 'Barna-Bellack Cup' and 'Jayalakhshmi Cup' respectively.
Men's section: Total 31 teams devided in eight groups:
Group `A' : Petroleum Sports Promotion board (PSPB), Chhattishgarh, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh.
Group `B' : Railway sports promotion board (RSPB), Karnataka, Jharkhand, Mizoram.
Group `c' : North Bengal, Maharastra `B', Kerala, Manipur.
Group `D' : Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, Andaman & Nicobar
Group `E' : Maharastra `A', West Bengal, Panjab, Meghalaya.
Group `F' : Delhi, Haryana, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir.
Group `G' : Tamil Nadu, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura.
Group `H' : Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttranchal.
Women's Section : Total 26 teams devided in eight groups :
Group `A' : PSPB, Assam, Chhattishgarh.
Group `B' : North Bengal, Chandigarh, Haryana.
Group `C' : West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala.
Group `D' : Dena bank, Bihar, Manipur.
Group `E' : Maharastra `B', Delhi, Himachal Pradesh.
Group `F' : Maharastra `A', Punjab, Uttaranchal.
Group `G' : Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, Jammu & Kashmir.
Group `H' : Rajashthan, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand.
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